Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Today's Gift
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
A musician must make music; an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be at peace with theirself. What a person can be, they must be. —Abraham Maslow
The same is true of a seamstress, carpenter, homemaker, lawyer, or mechanic. The question is, who and what am I? What must I do to be at peace with myself? What can I be, for that is what I must be?
A lucky few of us find the answers to these questions fairly early in life, and we work to develop into the people we can be and must be. We do that by looking at our deepest desires, and ask what would bring fulfillment for us. We ask what we would enjoy doing most, what we believe we have the ability to be really good at. What is it that sometimes burns within us to be expressed or done? The answers to what we can be, what we must be, come from within, through asking ourselves these questions.
What kind of a person am I capable of being?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
May you live all the days of your life. ---Jonathan Swift
The truth is, life hard. Accepting this fact will make it easier. Remember
how well it worked in Step One? Once we admitted and that we were
powerless over alcohol and other drugs, we were given the power to recover.
It works the same with life’s problems.
We can spend a lot of energy trying to avoid life’s hardships. But our program
teaches us to use the same energy to solve our problems. Problems are chances
to better ourselves and become more spiritual. We have a choice: we can either
use our energy to avoid problems, or we can face them. When we stop wasting
energy, we start to feel more sure of ourselves.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, life is to be lived, both the easy and the hard
parts. Help me face and learn from it all.
Action for the Day: I’ll work at not complaining about how hard life is. I’ll take
the same energy and use it to solve problems I may face.
Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
The Alcoholic
They are often perfectly sensible and well balanced concerning everything except liquor,
but in that respect they are incredibly dishonest and selfish. They often possesses special
abilities, skills, and aptitudes, and has a promising career ahead of them.
The use their gifts to build up a bright outlook for their family and theirself,
and then pulls the structure down on their head by a senseless series of sprees.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 21
Thought to Ponder
Alcoholic drinking's three stages: impulsive, compulsive, repulsive.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A L E = Alibis, Lies, Excuses
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Move to a higher perspective
by Ralph Marston
How can you change your life completely without changing it at all? Move yourself to a higher perspective.
Keep on doing what you do and being who you are. Yet choose to see it all in a new and more positive light.
Keep on doing all the work that must be done. Yet do it with love and gratitude, instead of with frustration and resentment.
Continue meeting the challenges and working through the obstacles that appear in your path. And do it with the confidence that what’s truly important cannot be diminished by random circumstances.
Continue to pay attention to the details, while at the same time rising above the petty concerns. Persist in putting forth your very best efforts, while also living beyond the destructive worries and anxieties.
Keep on experiencing what you’ve always experienced, yet from a higher perspective on the inside. And without even changing anything on the outside, you can change everything for the better.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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